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historisist 

one who knows much history, but only lets out small amounts to either (a) annoy people or (b) try to make themselves seem intellegent/funny/cool/historiful.
Person: Is historisist a word?

Historisist: It is now.
historisist by Monkeyfart February 6, 2006

historic 

A word used to describe our "historic President".

People believe President Barack Hussein Obama to be "historic" because he is the first half-white, half-black President of the U.S. This so-called "history" making gives guilty white liberals something to tout as they increase their rhetoric that anyone who opposes the "historic" president is racist. In fact, some white people, including many in mainstream media feel so guilty being white that they say they got "thrills up their leg" from seeing this happen.
A guy and his wife are in a car on a road trip:

Guy: "99,997, 99,998, 99,999!"
Wife: "100,000!"
Guy: "Gee! That was a historic moment!"
Wife: "It sure was!"
historic by default013 November 25, 2009

historyical

a past notable for its important, unusual, or interesting events, and also hilarious.
Elvis died on the crapper, which is true and historyical.
historyical by inreflection7 August 26, 2011

post-historic times 

the era following the post-modern era. As new media provides instant documentation of events both large and small, and all recordings of earlier historic records are contained online, this era will be one in which our understanding of time and global events will be within the context of momentary and fleeting bits of information.

Study of history will be a fluid and all-encompassing creative work.
the New York Times? man, that's such a post-historic times entity...

historicide 

The murder of history; accomplished when a historian leans too far to the postmodernist/relativist or too far to the scientific/objectivist side of the spectrum.
Gibbon nearly committed historicide back there. Thank goodness Ranke has sorted us all out.
historicide by Zagaloo November 25, 2009

historicism

Phenology in which the process-of-ontologization (making-of) of an object demonstrates itself in the final object as a narrative (motif (product)).

Part of the historicist (heuristicist) sequence: materialism, constructivism, and substantivism (substantialism).
"Heuristicism is a morpheme of the word "historicism."
historicism by tomorrowtomorrow January 20, 2019